How to think straight about psychology
/ Keth E. Stanovich
- 7th ed.
- India : Pearson Education, 2004
- xiv, 226 p.
Includes References and index
1. Psychology is alive and well (and doing fine among the science) 2. Falsifiability : how to foil little green men in the head 3. Operationism and essentialism : “But, Doctor, What does it really mean?” 4. Testimonials and case study evidence : placebo effects and the amazing randi 5. Correlation and causation : birth control by the toaster method 6. Getting things under control : the case of clever hans 7. “But it’s not real life!” :The “Artificially” criticism and psychology 8. Avoiding the Einstein syndrome : the importance of converging evidence 9. The misguided search for the “ magic bullet” : the issue of multiple causation 10. The achilles’ heel of human cognition : probabilistic reasoning 11. The role of chance in psychology 12. The Rodney Dangerfield of the sciences